Palavra de bamba: estudo léxico-discursivo de pioneiros do samba urbano carioca

Abstract

This is a study of the lexical characteristics of songs created by samba composers in Rio de Janeiro, from a discoursive perspective based on a corpus which is representative of their musical production. The corpus contains compositions of three artists who were born in the first decade of 20th century: Paulo da Portela, Ismael Silva and Cartola. The acomplishment of such task was based on cultural and historical studies about samba and Rio de Janeiro during the last decades of 19th century and the first decades of 20th century; on Corpus Linguistics techniques; on principles of Discourse Analysis; on techniques and principles of lexical studies (lexicology, lexicography and terminology). The purpose of this work is to contribute to the investigation of lexical characteristics of samba lyrics, specially in compositions which are typical of the early 20th century, an important period in the development of urban samba of Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore, the discoursive universe of samba is also presented, in its practices and values